This week on The Real L Word, some people fell in love and some people yelled at each other and some people can be content playing bingo and paying rent!

Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?

This is a packing list for VACATIONS. The ones where you aren’t really doing anything, just reading a ton of romance novels between dips in the ocean and playing board games while drinking wine at night.

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The entire story of our entire trip from California to Michigan and also all the bigger stories and the smaller ones, too.

It’s true, we promise, you just have to trust us.

“Start-up culture is odd. There’s a lot that I struggle with — it’s not something particularly designed for anyone who isn’t already privileged. It’s hard to go into it without a safety net. There’s a certain element of romanticizing struggle that is hard to internalize as a woman, a queer woman, and/or a woman of color. “

In which we learn that the last two seasons of Pretty Little Liars was actually nothing but dyke drama.

This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.

“Straight Couples Who Aren’t Fucking Are Appropriating Lesbian Bed Death Culture”

Gemini season can bring mild whiplash even in the best of times.

I love Black butches. Studs. Masc folks. I love them when they’re quiet and when they are loud. I love it they are soft — and when they are hard. Just a whole Dr. Seuss rhyme of loving them.

Just a little data, discussion and analysis from the backstage area of the Autostraddle Gay Emmys!

When I got diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I dropped everything and moved to the outskirts of the Everglades to die. Pushing my body to its limits brought a healing that I never could’ve found as a healthy person – to finally belong in my own skin.

Your next community gallery is here! Come gaze upon nearly 170 queer bedrooms of our lives, and the queers who queer them. Safe for work, more or less!

Orange Is the New Black, The Fosters, Sense8, Pretty Little Liars, Glee, and more!

“I asked Riese if she thought I would ever have sex again if I started wearing kaftans from World Market and she said no.”

An amazing roundtable with funny Hollywood females including Kate McKinnon, Rosie Perez talks to The Trevor Project about wanting to hump her junior high girlfriend all the time, Andreja Pejic’s groundbreaking new gig, what Bennett was thinking and more!

I talked with the flat-out amazing Laverne Cox about everything from Emmy reactions to deconstructing transgender tropes in a John Legend video to dealing with intersections of racism and transmisogyny. It was awesome.

It’s our very last recamp! In this heart-pounding tale of love and life, a bunch of weirdos go to prom, witness an epic proposal, and share all their feelings.